Frank Skinner to host Absolute Radio Live

Frank Skinner is to present Absolute Radio Live.

The ‘Room 101’ host will host Absolute Radio Live with Holiday Inn Express at the London Palladium - which is in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust - on November 27th, and he will also share the stage alongside other comedy big hitters, Romesh Ranganathan, Ed Byrne, Kerry Godliman, Matt Forde, Chris McCausland and Zoe Lyons.

The 65-year-old comedian said: “When Absolute Radio asked me to return to host this year’s comedy event, I couldn’t say no. I mean I literally couldn’t … it’s in my contract. Good thing then that it’s such a great bill of names, and all for a brilliant cause too.”

Frank - who fronts the station’s ‘The Frank Skinner Show’ on Saturday mornings and the weekly ‘Poetry Podcast’ - and David Baddiel are expected to to re-record their beloved 1996 football anthem ‘Three Lions’ as a Christmas song, complete with a shout out to the Euro champion Lionesses, alongside The Lightning Seeds’ Ian Broudie, 64, renaming it ‘Three Lions on A Sleigh’.

The song - which could drop just in time for the upcoming World Cup in Qatar - is also expected to get a video refresh and they have their fingers crossed for Sir Geoff Hurst, the hat-trick hero during English's World Cup win in 1966, making an appearance.

Tickets to Absolute Radio Live at the Palladium with Holiday Inn Express in support of Teenage Cancer Trust are on sale now, find out more at www.absoluteradio.co.uk.